Essay 3c
c)Post ISB where do you think you would like to be professionally

Here are the responses that I read in the grp.I have put all of them together ....Therez a lot of gyaan in the archive section of this yahoo grp.. Do a bit of research and u won't need to ask the same question again. :)

Raja (Current ISB student) says:
You could tell your short term, medium term and long term goals here. And possibly tie it all in with ISB - how difficult it would be to do all that without going through ISB. Different people will take different approaches, some will name dream companies, some will talk about positions etc. Nothing is wrong - adcom just wants to know if you have thought about the usefulness of getting an MBA.

Stuti(Prospective applicant )
My views on this question - Its basically a Why MBA, Why Now, Why ISB question - so you talk about what your career goals are, and how an MBA right now and
ISB in particular, are consistent with your plans to reach those goals. If you are career changer, your why mba question will have that as one of the major reasons for the mba. In that case, it would probably make sense for you to talk about your proposed new
career and again how isb/mba will work towards that..Just saying that you are planning a career change wont help much.. You got to show that you have done the
requisite homework on the new field/career you are targetting and and that pursuing an mba is part of a well thought out plan for the same..
Nitin Narang:(Prospective applicant ) i would just like to add on to this .. This answer
will also help the adcom to evaluate whether your goals are realisable after the MBA (both short and long term).. and importantly whether you will be
employable after the PGP from ISB .. An institute needs to think your employment probability before offering you admission

Mudit Garg((Prospective applicant ):
I tend to somewhat disagree with Stuti. This question is not related to "Why MBA, Why Now" but more to "What After MBA and Why That" . I think that the questions wants you to state clearly what you want to do after graduation - the kind of work u wanna do after mba and Why that kinda work ? Also, yr short term and long term plans. I might be worthwhile mentioning how isb helps u achieve your goals.That's it ( may be too much for 200 words! )

Sushant Gupta(Prospective applicant,Round 2 hopeful):
Just to add to the same, you don't really have to explicitly state that you seek a career change. Your essay will make that evident when it is compared with your CV.
You need to relate your past experiences to what you seek to do post-MBA. Really, the MBA should serve as that bridge to get you to your changed career path. Its up to you to demonstrate that the decision to pursue an MBA and then venture into a new area was part of a well thought plan, or atleast one that you have made after having learnt along the way that you do need to switch your line of work. I am using a similar line of thinking in my case.